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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #255 on: February 14, 2012, 07:45:18 AM »
We have been seeing some of your extreme European weather on tv! Hope it settles down soon, the loss of life is very shocking to us, where we usually hear very little about life lost during cold weather.. Certainly the kind of snow Razvan shows must be very hard to deal with, unless it is a region that is used to it!
Our normal this time of year is daytime high -2C/ nighttime low -16C, and our forecast is for days ranging from -2 to +4 and nights from -12 to -18C, so for us it is still very mild- we expect some days usually to be a lot colder than 'normal'- -30 or -40 would not be shocking for some days in February, and we have not had any! We just got 8-10cm of snow today, so it will refresh our whiteness!

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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #256 on: February 14, 2012, 10:26:44 AM »
After 13 days with subzero temperatures his morning greeted us with -18°C.

How much snow do you have?
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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #257 on: February 21, 2012, 04:54:46 PM »
14C here today  :o

I was potting snowdrops and weeding in a polo shirt. No need for heat in the house or in the car
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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #258 on: February 22, 2012, 05:32:47 PM »
Strong winds and rain here at the moment,and avery dull day ::)
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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #259 on: February 22, 2012, 05:39:46 PM »
Temperature forecast for today was 0-19 ºC. For tomorrow it's 0-22 ºC = the rain hasn't arrived yet :(
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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #260 on: February 22, 2012, 06:07:53 PM »
Today was not bad here in the mountains +2C and some bleak sunshine but a steady wind from west made it cold to cross the open areas. Did a short cross country ski trip - the first in 2012 actually. Less snow than normal up here.
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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #261 on: February 22, 2012, 06:38:16 PM »
Typical Devon day here-dreich. Heavy grey skies, heavy drizzle and around 10C. More of the same promised tomorrow.
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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #262 on: February 22, 2012, 06:52:41 PM »
Same here David, :(. Spent yesterday in a t-shirt pruning fruit bushes. Was hoping to continue today. Nasty, ::) ::)

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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #263 on: February 23, 2012, 08:15:37 AM »
Today was not bad here in the mountains +2C and some bleak sunshine but a steady wind from west made it cold to cross the open areas. Did a short cross country ski trip - the first in 2012 actually. Less snow than normal up here.

A weather station in my area reported the deepest snow measurement for 70 years this week at 1.8m! Avalanche danger is currently very high. Down here near the fjord it's raining one day, snow the next and it isn't accumulating.. The cross-country skiing just a couple of km inland is excellent though with deep snow cover which will probably last into May this year...

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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #264 on: February 23, 2012, 09:30:42 AM »
Typical Devon day here-dreich. Heavy grey skies, heavy drizzle and around 10C. More of the same promised tomorrow.

Glad to see your use of a Scottish based forum has improved your knowledge of the Scot's language ;D

Cheers from an equally dreich Derby

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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #265 on: February 23, 2012, 10:36:15 AM »
Typical Devon day here-dreich. Heavy grey skies, heavy drizzle and around 10C. More of the same promised tomorrow.

Glad to see your use of a Scottish based forum has improved your knowledge of the Scot's language ;D

Cheers from an equally dreich Derby

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By the way, you having sleeping problems? :P
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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #266 on: February 23, 2012, 11:09:31 AM »
Sleeping problems??????????????? It was 9.30 am I posted, I've usually been at work for two hours by then! I'm only here because I've been laid low by a bug - now that has caused sleeping problems :P

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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #267 on: February 23, 2012, 11:12:00 AM »
Typical Devon day here-dreich. Heavy grey skies, heavy drizzle and around 10C. More of the same promised tomorrow.

Glad to see your use of a Scottish based forum has improved your knowledge of the Scot's language ;D

Cheers from an equally dreich Derby

It's in the genes mate, watered down by centuries but it's there ;D

By the way, you having sleeping problems? :P

Early riser David? Insomnia? I wouldn't lose any sleep over it!

Dreich here today. Lesley asked for rain, so I sent her some. Trouble is it stayed here too. Mind you, it's so warm and humid that I melted this afternoon.

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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #268 on: February 24, 2012, 12:15:16 AM »
Its been a mild winter most of the time, that doesn't mean it will be over early! Tuesday was +6C/-7C, today 0C, -17C tomorrow morning, and a high of -10C on Sunday..  some more snow recently, and more to come over the next few days...

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Re: Weather winter 2011-12
« Reply #269 on: February 25, 2012, 01:19:26 PM »
We made it through the winter, which I could resume in NE France lowland to approximatively 2 whole weeks in first half of February ( during the coldwave that struck most parts of Europe)
December was 4°C above normal mean temperature, January was 3°C above once again.
However, snow was extremely rare, poor, and only for a few days.
Forecasts are saying up to 15°C and possibly a bit more next week.
Let's see now what kind of spring we're gonna have, hoping it's not running much too dry/warm this year again.
NE-France,Haut-Chitelet alpine garden,1200 m.asl
Rather cool/wet summer,reliable 4/5 months winter snow cover
Annual precip:200/250cm,3.5°C mean annual temp.

 


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